April 12, 2006
Harp-L Archives Rewritten
I re-wrote the Harp-L Archives software in PHP. It turns out Java is too tempermental and crashed three or four times a month for a day at a time. For those who are interested in the technical details, I wrote my own PHP program to read the ZIP files like a database. PHP 4 doesn't have a Zip Library built in (at least not by default) so I had to write my own.
It uses a Mod-rewrite trick so it looks like 111,000 web pages, but it's only one PHP file and 10 zip files. Pretty cool stuff, if you're a programmer. Harp players will be less impressed.
¶ Wednesday, April 12, 2006
I re-wrote the Harp-L Archives software in PHP. It turns out Java is too tempermental and crashed three or four times a month for a day at a time. For those who are interested in the technical details, I wrote my own PHP program to read the ZIP files like a database. PHP 4 doesn't have a Zip Library built in (at least not by default) so I had to write my own.
It uses a Mod-rewrite trick so it looks like 111,000 web pages, but it's only one PHP file and 10 zip files. Pretty cool stuff, if you're a programmer. Harp players will be less impressed.
¶ Wednesday, April 12, 2006
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